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1. As of noon trading, Gilead ( GILD) is up $0.41 (0.7%) to $58.16 on light volume. Thus far, 4.2 million shares of Gilead exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 11.4 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $57.56-$58.44 after having opened the day at $57.85 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $57.75.

Gilead Sciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, discovers, develops, and commercializes human therapeutics for the treatment of life threatening diseases in North America, Europe, and Asia. Gilead has a market cap of $87.2 billion and is part of the health care sector. Shares are up 55.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 18 analysts that rate Gilead a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 2 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Gilead as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its increase in net income, revenue growth, solid stock price performance, reasonable valuation levels and good cash flow from operations. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook. Get the full Gilead Ratings Report now.